One Saturday night, my little brother (8M), threw noise putty in my hair and it was very hard to remove. Me and my (10M) brother decided to ban him him from the Xbox for a week. Fast forward to today, and my mom told the 8 year old to play on the Xbox, and I explained to her that he’s been banned for throwing noise putty in my hair, we started arguing and the 8 year old said that he didn’t know that it would stick in my hair. When the argument reached its worst my mom said I was being abusive to my little brother. So tell me kind strangers of Reddit, am I the asshole for this?
NTA
That’s not abuse.
It’s merely a mild consequence.
Where was your mom when he was potentially ruining your hair?
>Where was your mom when he was potentially ruining your hair?
Just looked this product up and that shit comes out with warm water. Nothing was at risk of being ruined.
Unless you know a person’s hair type exactly, you don’t know that.
INFO: How old are you, and why are you the controller of the X-box?
It’s the family Xbox, not yours? What gives you two the right to deny access to others? Let your parent/s sort out an appropriate course of action for the putty.
Kids do dumb stuff, but YTA.
WTF is noise putty?
Putty that makes flatulence noises when playing with it
Thank God someone is parenting in that household.
NTA
Yta. The xbox isnt yours to ban anyone from.
ESH.
Your brother sucks for the putty.
You suck for deciding you just get to choose his punishment instead of telling your parents. From you, it’s just revenge and ganging up on the littlest, and conveniently getting more x-box time for yourselves.
Your parents suck for not knowing what’s going on in their house and possibly coddling your brother too much.
You don’t get to make that decision
Actions have consequences, and being restricted from video games is a light consequence for throwing putty in someone’s hair.
NTA
YTA. Your parents suck, but they’re the ones who brought it and get to decide who uses it. They also get to choose to be bad parents, which is the frustrating part.